Brown-Harris Cemetery, named for early African American settlers who owned the land, was lost sometime in the early 1900s and recently rediscovered during an archaeological survey for the surrounding University Boulevard Project. Extensive genealogical research using property atlas maps, census records, cemetery records, and obituaries suggested that the Brown and Harris families were related through a common ancestor, Mary (Harris) Brown, and identified living relatives from both families who took part in restoring the cemetery. Archaeologists used ground penetrating radar, magnetometers, careful soil removal, and hand tools to locate and document grave shafts, filing the results with the Ohio State Historic Preservation Office. Excavations identified 22 grave shafts, loosely organized into four rows and facing east in the Christian tradition; the burials were left in place, with steel rods placed atop the grave shafts before topsoil was added so the graves could be identified in the future. A small fragment of a grave marker bearing the letter "H" was found during the survey and is the only known grave marker from the cemetery; a gravestone for a 12-year-old boy named Joshua, who died in 1854, had been documented in 2004 after being moved to the front of the property and was likely destroyed during the 2005 demolition of the farmstead. Research also uncovered emancipation papers showing that Elizabeth Rowzie of Powhatan County, Virginia, freed a number of enslaved people upon her death on 13 October 1835 and provided for their relocation to Ohio, including members of the Harris and Smith families who settled in rural Washington Township on the land where the cemetery is located.